Why not? Because how many websites do you actually pay for content on? This is the internet where the well-known product is you the consumer, and data about you and your habits. Informed consent IS consent. GDPR has a great goal, but falls apart in its implementation in this regard.

I agree wholeheartdly. Yes, the free internet isn't really free; but you're free to view content on someone else's website. If I want to put a cookie on your computer for whatever reason in order for you to view my content, and you don't want the cookie, you don't get the content. It's my content that I'm publishing with a condition of access. If you don't like it, bugger off. Which is why my website won't ever be in the EU. I'm one of the first people to stand up for privacy, but a cookiewall IS making informed consent to giving up some of that privacy.

I don't agree with this; why can't I condition access to my content on someone accepting cookies? Seems like a fair system to me... you are offered access in return for me setting some cookies on your system. Can someone explain to me how this isn't reasonable?

Perhaps the TOS clearly spell out that ending the subscription would disable the active cartridge?

The guy HAD a subscription and canceled it, so HP disabled his ability to use the cartridge in his printer.

Cities do, and when they're small enough to not have a full-time one on staff, they have a legal agreement with a lawyer or firm that does. This is on the city, plain and simple. Basic contract law.

My wife registered as preferring one of the parties here in our state. And she has gotten over 100 pieces of mail from that party urging her to vote for their candidates. I did not register a party preference, and have only gotten a couple of pieces of mail urging me to vote. Her voting history has been blazoned across multiple cards in the mail in blatant attempts to shame her into voting. Mine was on one of the pieces of mail that I got. It seems like pretty soon we'll be getting mail telling us that it's time for us to buy more toilet paper because we'll be out next week...

Or had "bone spurs"

*cough* Rothfuss *cough*

No no, Stellar was a different company. ;-)

Looking at https://www.riaa.com/wp-conten..., I see that net "value" of shipped units including both physical and digital went up from 2014 to 2015: $6,950.5 to $7,015.9 (in millions) And according to http://www.billboard.com/artic..., ASCAP generated revenues of $1.014 billion, up 1.14 percent from the $1.003 billion generated in 2014. So, if artists and composers/arrangers are making less, either they're spreading the peanut butter around to more participants, or the industries are keeping more of the pot. OR, the artists bellyaching are being misled by their industry as to the real situation...

Having lived through such a scenario twice now, I will tell you that you'll need to be able to take a much more hands-off approach. An architect needs information to make decisions, but should not be mucking about in the systems. To be effective, you should either have read-only access to gather the information you need to do your job, or have a very good working relationship with the various delivery staff to provide you ad-hoc info about the environment. Of course, the ideal situation would be to position the dynamic information that you need to be available automatically via some reporting engines, removing the need for the access or constantly bothering administrators, but my experience is that setting that type of thing up often is more complex and fraught with hurdles than simply bugging someone to get you the information.

What's next, Orcs? The oppression of Middle Earth continues!

Goddamned right; we don't need "the best programmers" we need to hire "American programmers." Look at unemployment in the US; WHY the fuck do we need to bring more people here? It's easy to train programmers in another language. They just want to fucking lower the price...

But what about those poor bacteria's feelings !?!? They're slave labor!